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California regulator ARB could decide by the end of January whether to invalidate offset reporting periods under review for regulatory compliance violations, three WCI market sources told Carbon Pulse.

As temperatures drop in Florida more and more iguanas are plummeting to the ground.

He has called it all of these things: "mythical", "a hoax", not a hoax, and "a very serious subject".

The UK should consider imposing a levy on airlines and fossil fuel companies to help spur a woodland carbon trading scheme, the country’s official climate advisors said on Wednesday.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices continued dropping on the secondary market this week as participants looked to unload volume ahead of the February WCI auction, while RGGI prices stagnated on low liquidity.

Indigenous kinship networks link each plant to the next and connect us to Country. Honouring this way of being and engaging in fair collaboration might give power to our heartbreak. Vanessa Cavanagh, Associate Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

When a bushfire burns is one country, smoke drift means it can become the world's problem. But the law lacks the teeth to hold those responsible to account. Eric Kerr, Lecturer, National University of Singapore Malini Sur, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) made revisions to its deforestation reduction programme methodology on Wednesday in response to comments from an UN aviation expert panel with an aim of becoming eligible for the international flight offset programme CORSIA.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits surged to new all-time records on Thursday, pressing up against the clean fuels programme’s pending ceiling price.

Spain's new government plans to ratchet down its 2030 emissions goal by a further two percentage points, in a move likely to get firm approval by Brussels this month.

• Rollback of clean water protections for streams and wetlands
• Obama-era rules have long been targeted by Trump

The Trump administration has completed its rollback of environmental protections for streams, wetland and other bodies of water, a process that has stripped pollution safeguards from drinking water sources used by around a third of all Americans.

Clean water protections strengthened under the Obama administration have long been targeted by Donald Trump, who has called it a “very destructive and horrible rule”.

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Experts use 3D printing and speech technology to replicate the voice of Egyptian priest Nesyamun.

The increasingly dry region relies on imports of sheep and cows from as far as Brazil to satisfy the rapidly growing population

Cows are waiting in pens, on sweet-smelling fresh straw. They have come to Lebanon from Spain, from Romania. In the one end of the alley are two pens packed with enormous Brahman cattle, standing well over six feet with their distinctive humps, all the way from Brazil.

“They are the most aggressive,” says one of the slaughterhouse staff. “It’s just their personalities.”

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EUAs slipped 2% early on Wednesday as the energy complex weakened while wider financial markets fretted about the spread of a flu-like virus in China and elsewhere.

Experts say the man's brain, found in the Roman town of Herculaneum, was affected by extreme heat.

The National Rifle Association has used its connections in the Trump administration to influence decisions

In the fall of 2017, a National Rifle Association lobbyist named Benjamin Cassidy left his job at the influential gun group. His next stop: a top position at the US interior department, which oversees hundreds of millions of acres of federal land across the country.

Once in office, it didn’t take Cassidy long to turn around and use his new government gig to provide his long-time NRA colleagues with special access to the powerful federal agency, as revealed by previously unreleased communications obtained by the Guardian.

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Uncertainty is emerging over the amount of progress China will make on its national emissions trading scheme this year as responsibility this week shifted to a new senior government official, while the outbreak of the Coronavirus raises risks of a policy standstill.

A wet market, where animals are freshly slaughtered rather than chilled was identified as the source of the coronavirus outbreak. But experts have long warned of dangers

Each evening, under cover of darkness, hundreds of live pigs from farms across China are trucked through the rusting gates of a cluster of mildew-stained quarantine and inspection buildings in the Qingshuihe logistics zone in Shenzhen.

Overnight they are checked for illness, primarily the African swine fever (ASF) that is expected to kill off a quarter of the world’s pigs, and reloaded on to ventilated trucks with dual mainland China and Hong Kong licence plates.

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Oil companies and airlines could fund 100m trees a year, says Committee on Climate Change

The planting of 100m trees a year in the UK to tackle the climate emergency could be paid for by new carbon levies on oil companies and airlines, the government’s official climate adviser has proposed.

The Committee on Climate Change also recommends banning the burning of grouse moors and the sale of peat compost to protect the nation’s bogs, which can store huge amounts of carbon. Voluntary measures have failed, it said.

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Victoria Liberal leader Michael O'Brien calls on federal Coalition to raise bar on climate policy, after announcing his Party's support of the need for state emissions reductions.

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